War Profit Litany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEBFCGBGHIJKLDBMB NLHLHOPQQRQPSBBBBHT| To Ezra Pound | A |
| - | |
| These are the names of the companies that have made | B |
| money from this war | C |
| nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand | B |
| eighty Hebraic | D |
| These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan | E |
| dising skinburning phosphorous or shells fragmented | B |
| to thousands of fleshpiercing needles | F |
| and here listed money millions gained by each combine for | C |
| manufacture | G |
| and here are gains numbered index'd swelling a decade set | B |
| in order | G |
| here named the Fathers in office in these industries tele | H |
| phones directing finance | I |
| names of directors makers of fates and the names of the | J |
| stockholders of these destined Aggregates | K |
| and here are the names of their ambassadors to the Capital | L |
| representatives to legislature those who sit drinking | D |
| in hotel lobbies to persuade | B |
| and separate listed those who drop Amphetamine with | M |
| military gossip argue and persuade | B |
| suggesting policy naming language proposing strategy this | N |
| done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon consul | L |
| tants to military paid by their industry | H |
| and these are the names of the generals captains mili | L |
| tary who know thus work for war goods manufactur | H |
| ers | O |
| and above these listed the names of the banks combines | P |
| investment trusts that control these industries | Q |
| and these are the names of the newspapers owned by these | Q |
| banks | R |
| and these are the names of the airstations owned by these | Q |
| combines | P |
| and these are the numbers of thousands of citizens em | S |
| ployed by these businesses named | B |
| and the beginning of this accounting is and the end | B |
| that static be contained in orderly mind | B |
| coherent and definite | B |
| and the first form of this litany begun first day December | H |
| furthers this poem of these States | T |
Allen Ginsberg
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